Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration will be 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, at Congregation B'nai Abraham, 53 E. Baltimore St., Hagerstown. The evening will feature speakers Esther and Howard Kaidanow, Holocaust survivors, who fought the Nazis as part of an underground group known as the Partisans. There will also be a brief Sabbath service conducted by Rabbi Fred Raskind. The choir will present Donald McCullough's Holocaust Cantata and Jessica Fitzwater will play "Theme from Schindler's List" on the violin. Call 301-733-5039.

3. An evening of piano

Scott Beard will works by Poulenc, Bach, Messiaen, Gershwin, Granados and a world premiere of three etudes by Washington, D.C., composer Scott Pender. Concert is 8 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at Shepherd University's W.H. Shipley Recital Hall in Frank Center, off University Drive, Shepherdstown, W.Va. Free. Go to www.shepherd.edu/musicweb.

Research biologist Adrienne Sussman will discuss why it's important to save one species of crows on a South Pacific island. This is the final in a three-part series on conservation issues. Sponsored by Renfrew Institute. Lecture is at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4, Renfrew Museum and Park visitor center, 1010 E. Main St., Waynesboro, Pa. Free, donations accepted. Parking is available behind the visitor center accessed from East Main Street or in the lower lot off Welty Road. Call 717-762-0373 or go to www.renfrewinstitute.org.